Influence of the Region of Injury on Risk of Mortality in Severely Injured Patients Stratified by Age: An Analysis of 98,481 Patients from the TraumaRegister DGU®
Jonin Serafin Zumsteg, Yannik Kalbas, Lara Zankena, Franziska Ziegenhain, Julian Scherer, Nicolas Eibinger, Rolf Lefering, Hans-Christoph Pape, Kai Oliver Jensen, the TraumaRegister DGU · 2026
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Jonin Serafin Zumsteg and coauthors analyze which injury region drives death risk by age in a 2026 trauma registry study. Nearly one hundred thousand severely injured adults from Swiss, German, and Austrian centers met the study criteria. Leading injuries were grouped as head, chest, abdomen, or limb.
Death rates climbed steeply with age across all groups. Head injury carried high risk at every age. Chest, abdomen, and limb injuries showed far steeper age related risk jumps than head injury. The oldest group faced the highest relative risks for non head injuries. Authors suggest standard severity scores may miss age related differences in injury impact.
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| CREATOR | Jonin Serafin Zumsteg, Yannik Kalbas, Lara Zankena, Franziska Ziegenhain, Julian Scherer, Nicolas Eibinger, Rolf Lefering, Hans-Christoph Pape, Kai Oliver Jensen, the TraumaRegister DGU |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |